Tag: cultural norms
Meet The Celebrity-Endorsed Extremist Movement Expert Calls The ‘Greatest Threat To Black Americans’ Today
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- Black Hebrew Israelite (BHI) ideology is growing in America according to several experts that spoke with the Daily Caller News Foundation, one going so far as to call it the “greatest threat to black Americans.”
- A 2019 poll sponsored by the Philos Project entitled “African American Attitudes Toward Israel” surveyed over 1,000 African American participants. Several of the questions specifically pertained to BHI ideology. Males were twice as likely to pick the response stating “I agree with most of the core ideas taught by Black Hebrew Israelites” than females.
- The DCNF spoke with Bishop Nathanyel, the head of the IUC church with locations in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Nathaniel stated that the term ‘Black Hebrew Israelites’ was a false moniker made up by the media.
This article is heavily slanted and does not hide it but also has some good information and is worth reading. ABN
Raw tribal emotions
Raw emotions of ethnic and religious difference boil over sometimes. These displays of emotion are fundamental to human nature. Even when you train them away through “education,” you only end up with more of the same.
PC culture was the result of anti-tribal education in schools. Yet it succeeded only in producing another “tribe.” This one rigidly organized around non-negotiable PC ideals.
If you question those ideals you are an enemy of that tribe.
The PC tribe is not centered on the signs and symbols of ethnicity. Rather, it is centered on a tribal use of the neocortex, where we process the semiotics of allegiance to a group.
The intolerance of PC culture and the violence of its bastard child Antifa show how powerful and irreducible tribal emotions can be.
Ashley Judd’s diatribe and the pink pussy hats that appeared after the election are another example of the raw emotions of tribal allegiance. Note the pink hats as semiotic identifiers.
You have to be intelligent to overcome a tribe, maybe in the top 10-20 percent of any population. But then, how do you deal with the other 80 percent?
Should you lead them?
No, you really shouldn’t and certainly not without their input. An ideological tribe is unstable and often capable of even worse violence than an ethnic tribe.
Example one: Communism, which shows how low human nature can be across many different cultures.
Example two: Our sorry intellectual “leaders” in academia who have led American society nowhere good.
Indeed, academia has “succeeded” mostly in forming only one thing—a $elf-aggrandizing tribe of its own, which is overwhelmingly leftist and intolerant of anyone who dares disagree.
Academia, of course, acts as backup to our equally tribal media and political elite.
Only a recluse can escape tribal reality. Only fools play “intellectual” games with it.
first posted JUNE 6, 2017
UPDATE 12/07/22: Some of the vocabulary has changed but the raw tribal nature of our world most decidedly has not. ABN
Medically assisted suicide in Canada, an example of going too far
Alan Nichols was a 61-year-old British Columbian with a history of depression and other medical issues – though none of them life-threatening – who was hospitalized in 2019 over fears he might be suicidal.
Although he asked his brother, Gary, to ‘bust him out’ as soon as possible, within a month of going into hospital he’d submitted a request to be euthanized. He listed only one health condition – hearing loss – as the reason but that was enough to satisfy his keepers and he was killed. ‘Alan was basically put to death,’ said his brother Gary.
Erin Smith said her 71-year-old father, Rod McNeill, went to an Ontario hospital after suffering a fall. A month later, he had been euthanized. She says the doctors responsible didn’t even get hold of his medical records from his own physician.
He was subsequently euthanized for a condition – end-stage chronic obstructive pulmonary disease – that an autopsy shows he didn’t have, she said.
Sheila Elson, the mother of a 25-year-old woman with cerebral palsy said a hospital doctor in Newfoundland actually told her she’d be ‘selfish’ if she didn’t consider pursuing the euthanasia option.
Roger Foley, a patient with a degenerative brain disorder, secretly recorded staff at his hospital in London, Ontario, mentioning euthanasia.
In one recording, the hospital’s director of ethics told Mr Foley it would cost ‘north of $1,500 a day’ to keep him in hospital, adding: ‘My piece of this was to talk to you, (to see) if you had an interest in assisted dying.’
Mr Foley said he had never previously mentioned euthanasia, but the hospital said there is no ban on staff raising the issue.
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Moral reasoning in grey areas
Fundamental to moral reasoning is a grey area of proportion or the degree to which something is done or how easy or hard it is to do it. Or whether it should be done at all. Legalistic cultures like Canada, USA, and the West in general have many problems stemming from our inability to clearly draw lines between right and wrong on many issues with large grey areas.
Euthanasia, especially in Canada, is one of these issues as is maiming the bodies of children based on extremely dubious—I would say completely crazy—psychological and moral reasoning. Elon Musk is having a similar problem with free speech on Twitter. He can’t figure out where to draw a line that actually does not need to be drawn.
To me, it is self-evident that irreparably maiming a child based on a crazy idea is morally wrong. So is killing a sad man or suggesting to him that he might be better off dead and we can help you with that. Musk’s dilemma is no less serious as billions of people and the future course of world civilization will be affected by his decision, which in my view is very clear: The correct algorithm to use on Twitter is Twitter users being allowed to say and view what they want.
Every culture struggles with moral issues. In the West, we have to do better. I have described two lines that can be drawn to protect children and adults from medical malpractice and one line that can be drawn to protect the world from people who want to control the speech of others. ABN
I’m going to explain what Elon Musk is likely doing over there at Twitter. This is not a discussion on whether it’s RIGHT OR WRONG; just what’s happening
Alright, I’m going to explain what Elon Musk is likely doing over there at Twitter. This is not a discussion on whether it’s RIGHT OR WRONG; just what’s happening.
If I'm wrong, I'm sure he'll pop up and say so.
What Elon is engaged in is something called "Whaling and Culling."
First, the "Whaling":
It's a common refrain that you've probably heard at some point or another "10% of people do 90% of the work." That's what that tight 2 week deadline for Twitter Blue was for; he was perfectly aware that it was an unrealistic time frame. It was a test.
By pushing for such an extremely tight deadline, Elon got to see who is actually doing work and who is resting on their laurels. Furthermore, it proved who could actually perform under extreme pressure.
Continue reading “I’m going to explain what Elon Musk is likely doing over there at Twitter. This is not a discussion on whether it’s RIGHT OR WRONG; just what’s happening”Judith Kalik: Vodka and Rural Jews in Eastern Europe
Some very basic anthropology and how that affects news and politics
A well-known difference in world cultures is the degree to which members of a culture marry close relatives. This is called consanguinity. The map below shows rates of consanguinity across the world. Click on the image to expand the map and see the numbers better.
Cultures with high rates of consanguinity tend to be clannish. This means that a basic organizational unit of the society is a clan made up of closely related members. Clans are usually hierarchical and demand primary loyalty from their members. And this generally results in nations with weak state institutions, corruption, and lots of fighting among clans.
Young males in clans generally learn from an early age that violence is the best way to settle disputes because that is how it has been for centuries and because there are no alternatives like a fair and effective legal system.
Clannish societies also engage in crowd behaviors such as those that occurred in Cologne on New Years Eve. To an anthropologist, attacks of that nature should not be surprising. They are a fairly normal aspect of clan-based behavior and psychology. Germans, though…
…have been shocked by the scale of the attacks, involving many groups of drunk and aggressive young men.
Witnesses and police said the men were of Arab or North African appearance. (same link as above)
Being shocked by something so predictable says a good deal about German idealism. Do they really think that just breathing the air in Germany will change the psycho-sociologies of migrants that have developed over thousands of years?
Displaying amazing ignorance of the root cause of what is happening in Cologne and many other parts of Europe, the Mayor of Cologne herself actually said
…that [German] women should adopt a “code of conduct” to prevent future assault at a crisis meeting following the sexual attack of women by 1000 men on New Year’s eve. (link)
When your ideals stubbornly do not match reality, it’s time to change your ideals.
Europe used to be a clannish society. But the Catholic Church banned consanguinity during the Middle Ages. Banning consanguinity was a deliberate and premeditated way to destroy the clan structure of much of Europe.
After that ban, a different sort of society evolved in Europe, based on strong state laws and a universal morality that sees other people as being largely “the same as” oneself and thus deserving of fair treatment.
Some other really basic differences between societies are the way women are treated (see the above) and how the truth is treated.
In Europe and European-derived cultures, the truths people believe in are open and ideally should be shared with others without prejudice. The scientific method is a good example of this. Europe did not keep its science and technology secret.
This is not the case in many other cultures. In many parts of the world codes exist that define what can be said or not said to “outsiders.” And in many of those societies it is considered right and proper to lie to “outsiders” in order to gain an advantage over them. If you allow large numbers of people like that into your society, you are going to have problems.
The ideas expressed above are so basic to human social psychology, it’s long past time to stop being ignorant of them or pretending they are more malleable than they are.
first posted JANUARY 6, 2016
Josep Borrell-“Europe is a garden… It’s the best combination (…) humankind has been able to build, the rest of the world is a jungle, and the jungle could invade the garden, and the gardeners should take care of it”
🇪🇺Josep Borrell-“Europe is a garden… It’s the best combination (…) humankind has been able to build, the rest of the world is a jungle, and the jungle could invade the garden, and the gardeners should take care of it”
Police union says ‘culture of lawlessness’ in America ‘must stop’ after 12 officers shot in a week
The National Fraternal Order of Police, the oldest and largest police union in the US, released a statement on Thursday on Twitter demanding that the “culture of lawlessness” in America “must stop.”
“Since Monday, at least 12 police officers have been shot,” the statement read. “The spewing of anti-police rhetoric by some political and media figures as well as the failed policies of rogue prosecutors and judges are placing our officers in greater danger. This culture of lawlessness must stop!”
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You can’t say what they don’t already know
The main problem with culture is, in virtually all cases, “you can’t say what they don’t already know.”
Some very small cultures of just a few people are exceptions to this rule, but no large culture with anonymous and/or not-well-known members is.
Cultures demand constant authorization and reauthorization from their members. To stray from established norms is to weaken group authorizations.
In the world today, you cannot escape the above truth about culture. You will find it prevails no matter where you go.
In your private life you can escape the above truth by doing FIML practice. The whole point of FIML is to speak about things you don’t already know.
first posted JUNE 29, 2016
Eva Vlaardingerbroek highlights nasty decline of the West ~ “Is this what ‘the free west’ is about?”
🇳🇱 The Dutch government is ramping up the expropriation of our farmers, driving some of them to commit suicide. They’re a bunch of inhumane greedy liars and thieves who created a fake crisis to rob people of their rights and property.
Is this what ‘the free west’ is about?
Originally tweeted by Eva Vlaardingerbroek (@EvaVlaar) on October 12, 2022.
Alex Jones on drag queens in schools
I despise censorship and the current deeply un-American fraudulent kangaroo court case against Jones, so I am posting more of his material and encourage others to do so too. In significant ways, Jones is one of our great contemporary artists. He’s very smart and has a deservedly very large following, which is why globopinko wants to destroy him. He has also been right time and again on almost all issues. Even the title of his show–Info Wars–was prescient. ABN
Jew Zuckerberg (Powerless, Victim) Blocks Kanye’s Account, Deletes Posts to Prove Jews Are Not Powerful
On Friday, Kanye West posted about powerful Jews on instagram, and now that Jew who runs instagram has silenced him in order to prove that he is wrong and Jews being powerful is an anti-Semitic hoax.
The earth-shaking post was a screenshot of a SMS exchange between West and rapper Puff Daddy. West told Puffy that he’s not going to be cowered by the Jews.
…I don’t want to sound hysterical, of course. But it’s unclear what else could happen at this point than for things to start really falling apart in earnest. The idea that this current “normal” of Brandon’s America is sustainable on really any timeframe is just simply absurd. You notice that after the Nord Stream bombing, people are no longer claiming that talking about World War III is “hysterical.” Brandon himself is out there saying we’re all going to get nuked. These people just do a terrorist attack inside of Russia.
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96% are too smart to fall for it
Yet another example of covid pseudoscience being fueled by corruption not evidence. The good news is 96% are not falling for it this time. I hope all of us will clearly remember how alternate news sources (like ABN) were consistently right about covid, covid treatments, and the dangers of covid vaccines while mainstream news sites were and are consistently wrong about almost everything. Once you see how and why this happens–money & power–you can never fall for it again. There is a lot of work to do to bring our country back to a reasonable place. 96% rejection of the “poison death shot” is a good sign. ABN
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